Gadgets, Gizmos, and Games for Geeks

The brainchild of 23-year-old designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente, the Chaise Longue is a double-decker system of airline seating that allows for more passengers to fit in the same amount of space, with the lower level passengers sitting with their faces directly behind the upper deck butts in front of them.…

Encased in a hard briefcase for maximum protection on the go, LG’s latest iteration of its StanbyME touchscreen tablet television features a 27-inch 1080p screen and looks like something I’d expect to see in a ’60s spy movie.…

Lifting off from an airport in Slovakia, 1,000 LEGO minifig astronauts traveled some 21 miles high aboard a 3D-printed shuttle carried by a balloon. Commissioned by LEGO from marketing firm Kreativ Gang, three separate flights carried around 335 astronauts apiece skyward before the balloon popped and the shuttle returned to earth via parachute.…

Crafted and sold by the purveyor of wild indoor/outdoor decor Design Toscano, these life-size Egyptian god statues are the perfect compliment to your pyramid’s foyer to let guests know you have more money than you know what to do with.…

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon Spider-Man watch is a collaboration with Marvel to celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse. The $215,000 wristwatch features a 3D likeness of Spider-Man that appears as if he’s about to swing right out of the watch face.…

Crochet artist Nicole Nikolich of lace_in_the_moon handmade these old school Windows icons for the perfect touch of crafty nostalgia. Nicole also made a hefty 8-pound throw blanket with the Windows 11 home screen on one side and a Windows 95 desktop screen on the other, which consists of 104,800 stitches.…

Proof that there isn’t anything you can’t build with LEGO, a group of researchers at Cardiff University in Wales have constructed a bioprinter out of LEGO capable of the precision necessary to print synthetic human skin.…

Because how else would you decorate a Chiquita-themed living space, these Leather Banana Rocking Chairs (affiliate link) are the perfect addition to your tropical rumpus room.…

Inspired by the lightcycles seen in TRON, the Light Cycle 2.0 Glow-Core wedding band crafted and sold by Etsy shop VentureCustomShop is based on the wheels of everyone’s favorite 90-degree turning bikes.…

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the McNugget’s first appearance on menus in 1983, McDonald’s China offered McNugget-shaped handheld gaming systems that play Tetris. Available for 30 yuan (~$4.25) with any purchase, the 400,000 systems manufactured quickly sold out.…

Combining two of my favorite things (LEGO and video games), LEGO has announced a build set in the form of a Pac-Man arcade machine. The 2,651-piece kit includes a marquee with rotating Pac-Man and ghosts on top, a coin slot that lights up with the push of a button, and game characters that move on-screen when a crank is turned on the side of the machine.…

Because the summer nears, and staying cool is the name of the game, the Summer Waves Truck Bed Pool (affiliate link) is an inflatable pool designed to fit snugly in the shorter beds of today’s crew-cab trucks.…

LIFT Aircraft’s HEXA human drone is a $495,000 amphibious drone designed to carry a single person into the skies. And, from the looks of its spider-like legs, it harvests other humans for more power to keep itself flying.…

Because there’s a first time for everything, YouTuber Lotrfan (aren’t we all?) has created what he believes is the first talking time-lapse video. He first took a photo of himself every day for 285 days, then lined up the resulting footage with an existing video of him speaking, and made the lips of his time-lapse transparent so it appears he’s speaking over the course of 285 days.…

On a mission to reinvent the wheel, YouTuber The Q constructed a bike with Reuleaux triangular wheels. Is it more practical than a bike with entirely round wheels?…

The Heinz Remix machine mixes custom sauces to your palate’s content. It works in a similar fashion to in a Coca-Cola Freestyle drink-mixing machine where I make all the most horrible concoctions I can think of.…